There's so few? Nope. There's so many

How ONE BOY in girls' sports affects THOUSANDS of girls

There’s so few. That’s all you ever hear. No, for the love of god, no. Flip your thinking. There are so many. There are so very many girls, young girls, who are just trying to figure out how the world works and their place in it, that we’re willing to blow off, throw under the bus, outright say they don’t matter, for the sake of the feelings of one boy.

We’ve seen this before at the collegiate level, but for some unknowable reason, activists, politicians, even average indifferent people seem to think junior high girls are some amorphous, sex-neutral, unfeeling, irrelevant blob. They’re so far from an NCAA scholarship or anything that looks elite that fairness for them doesn’t matter, right? We can bend the rules a little bit. After all, it’s just about participation at that level—kids are just kids at that age, right?

I’m here to tell you that is a steaming pile of misogynistic ruminant waste. Girls 11- to 14-years old are probably THE single most finely culturally and socially attuned humans on the planet. As females, it’s a matter of survival to absorb cues, both overt and unsaid, to figure out how the world works, how to deal with womanhood, where the dangers lie, and how to avoid them. While boys of the same age may bulldoze through life blissfully ignorant to all but the most blaring signals, girls’ very social lives operate in an entirely different zone, as if they’re able to see ultraviolet light.

And 11- to 14-year-olds are not sex-neutral smooth-genitaled dolls. They’re fully sexed from birth, and boys are larger and stronger than girls. Two studies and mountains of data from decades of school fitness testing show that males are stronger, faster, and throw harder and more accurately than girls starting at age 4 (the youngest age tested) and increasing with age. Girls are acutely aware of those differences, even if they are currently being gaslit on an industrial scale in this regard.

So, oh holy gosh yes, tossing even one boy, sanctioned by “trusted” adults, mind you, into that female pool has seismic results, even if the girls don’t show it. Let’s have a look at the fallout, both direct and indirect.

For the last four years, one boy, Becky Pepper-Jackson, has participated in girls’ track and field and cross country in West Virginia. The impact, the harm, from just one boy’s incursion in just two girls’ sports in one state over a four-year period adds up geometrically. The number of girls directly affected is eyebrow-singeing:

Number of girls displaced: 423

Number of displacements: 1100 (BPJ took some of those 423 girls’ spots numerous times)

Number of medals displaced: 57

Those results were taken from Athletic.net. Pepper-Jackson competed in shot put and discus. In early season meets like the Fool’s Run Relays, Bridgeport’s coach and coaches from the other teams, could likely enter as many athletes as cared to participate in the shotput and discus. Pepper-Jackson placed first in the shot put, pushing all 28 girls in the field down by a spot, denying the first three girls their rightful place on the podium. Let’s be clear—by middle school girls understand competition and fairness, that there is a winner and girls who are 18th place. They understand losing to another girl, but to a boy? That’s different.

Do you think they noticed being bumped down by a boy? Do you think they didn’t care? Do you think 13-year-old girls aren’t competitive like boys are? Pepper-Jackson won the discus by an astounding 12”, pushing the 23 girls who should have been competing only against females down by a spot. Same questions apply. Add to that, like BPJ, many of the same girls compete in both shot put and discus, so they had to face a person they knew to be male, that adults too knew to be male, again. In almost every meet. Do you think the girls’ noticed that no adults had their back, that all these “trusted adults” were supporting a boy in their category, as if the Female label meant nothing? Maybe they questioned their own observations; maybe somehow BPJ was a girl. Maybe they figured they didn’t know what they were talking about. Do you think they got discouraged, losing to a boy over and over?

Even a 13-year-old girl can say Enough. And in 2024, five girls did. Five girls from rival schools stepped into the shot put ring and then back out again, refusing to compete as a protest against having to compete against a male. A brave move, considering that coaches and athletic directors could not manage to do it, and considering the social ostracization they faced for “not being kind.” This protest came at enormous cost to the girls. But to the boy? Not so much. He was fawned over by other students, tiptoed around by school officials, and championed by activists and politicians. And that’s how this incident ended up—BPJ won the shot put by an astounding 3 feet and topped the podium, smiling. The five girls who protested were marked No Distance. Do you think they thought their protest was worth the cost? Did they learn that women’s rights matter? Or that women should even stand up for their rights, ever? Or did they think, Wow, EVERYONE was supporting that boy. They must be right.

There were 49 girls on the Bridgeport, WV middle school track team in 2024, Pepper-Jackson’s eighth grade year. At later season meets, like the Harrison County Championship (which is the meet where the above protest took place) and the Harry Green Statewide Middle School Invitational, registration is limited so coaches can only send the top one or two athletes in each event. BPJ was chosen to represent Bridgeport at both meets, so before he even got there, he denied girls from his own team the opportunity to attend a higher level meet. At the Harrison County Championship, BPJ pushed 18 girls down the standings in the discus, stole second place so that the girl who should have been second was third, and the girl who should have been third was bumped off the podium entirely. He won the shot put, denying 13 girls their rightful place in the standings, and stealing three girls’ chance to be recognized on what should have been an all-girl podium. How absurd is that—a boy standing on a girls’ podium. At the Harry Green Statewide Middle School Invitational, certainly a big deal for any athlete, BPJ denied 18 girls in the discus their rightful place in their own sport, and 21 girls in the shot put. He placed second in both events, standing up there on the podium, smiling, while girls quietly absorbed a lot of messages.

What messages were they taking away from this, even as they had smiles glued to their faces? Was it, Gosh, I’m glad I was just in this for the participation? Was it, Yeah, I guess I’m not good enough for people to care. It’s only middle school girls’ track? Was it, Well he, I mean, she is, like, marginalized and will kill herself, so I should just be kind? Or was it, That is a straight up boy sure as I’m standing here but I’d better not say that or I can start living in a cave right now?

Those numbers above—423 girls displaced, 1100 displacements, 57 medals displaced—are girls that were pushed down in the results because they finished below Pepper-Jackson, but do not assume that girls who beat Pepper-Jackson were unaffected by his incursion. Those girls know a boy is competing in their category, that whether it’s one or a hundred boys, the girls’ category is meaningless. They don’t matter. These talented girls were lucky enough to beat the boy but that’s weak tea when they know that they bested a not-very-talented boy.

What were the thoughts of the 49 girls on Bridgeport’s track team who had to share a locker room with BPJ five days a week? These are girls who are dealing with their periods for the first time. Were they uncomfortable with a boy in the locker room?Did they feel guilty for feeling uncomfortable by his presence? Due to underreporting (fear of not being believed, shame), it’s impossible to know the number of sexual assaults of girls in this age group but we know that 40% to 60% of rapes are of girls under age 18. Given this data, it’s a safe bet that at least one of the girls on the Bridgeport team had been or was being abused. What message are these girls absorbing when they CANNOT tell a male to get out of their space? They may not know but their coach certainly does that forcing girls to undress with a male without their consent is sexual harassment. Adults talk a good game of empowering girls but the flashing neon message is the opposite—boys’ feelings and desires are prioritized, girls cannot say no, normalizing sexual abuse. That’s rape culture, my friends.

In those four years and basically two events (BPJ only competed in two cross country races), this one boy took the place of 423 girls, 1100 times. But ALL the girls at 24 track meets saw what was going on. Twenty-four track meets with, say, 100 girls (and don’t forget, boys see what’s going on too) per meet=at least 2,400 girls. They were all affected by that one boy. They all knew that a boy was being allowed to compete in their sport, enabled and enforced by adults. They didn’t see it going the other direction—girls invading boys’ spaces, taking boys’ places on teams and boys’ awards. What’s the message this one boy was sending to those thousands of girls? Boys matter, girls don’t. The girls’ category is up for grabs, whether it’s one boy or a hundred boys, any boy who wants to can play on the team and use the locker room. Most girls by middle school have been raised on gender ideology and don’t even know they can object to boys in their sports. They don’t know they have sex-based rights. If they do know, they see it as a third rail, social suicide.

Adding to those thousands of girls directly and indirectly affected by BPJ are the families of those girls. Anguished parents see that it’s wrong but don’t want to make things worse for their daughters by speaking up. Or they do speak up but run into the legal wall—”That’s the law in this state.” What about coaches and athletic directors? They likely know it’s wrong for a boy to compete in girls’ sports but they have a mortgage and bills to pay—speak out and your job is in danger.

That's the effect of just one boy in one state. Now do the math on male athlete AB Hernandez who won California state championships in two events in track, a sport in which roughly 40,500 girls participate. Hernandez screwed over every single one of those 40,500 girls. And with legislative, political, and school backing, this boy is continuing his campaign of naked misogyny by competing in girls' volleyball this fall. Hundreds of thousands of girls are harmed, their rights violated, opportunities taken, minds messed with, messages received: Girls don't matter. This is enlightened? This is progressive? No, this is freaking Afghanistan.

What the holy heck?! Families are torn apart, parents lose friends, people lose jobs, the community is divided. Denying a fundamental truth like boys are not girls, and that girls have and should have sex-based rights is profoundly destabilizing. It’s not hyperbole to say allowing one boy to compete in girls’ sports breaks society. Is it worth it to affirm the delusions of one boy?